Who created Culinary Cutting Boards and why?

Gabriel McKeagney is a master furniture maker, born in Tempo, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland into a Coachbuilding family tradition going back five generations.

He worked in London in his early 20’s and NY & SF doing historic restoration, before coming to So California where he has worked building high end residential & commercial furniture for 25 years.

Being product focused, Gabriel has learned over the years to blend what products interest him personally with what the market wants.  Understanding the diminishing quality hardwoods available in any off today’s products and the fact that people no longer even recognized hardwoods, Gabriel made it his goal to put quality hardwoods back into everybody’s hands, with the name of the wood on it!

This beauty, coupled with the fact that by salvaging this material from industrial shop waste, ‘No tree gets felled to produce this product”.

What got Culinary Cutting Boards started?

Gabriel started making cutting boards with his children when they were young, teaching them how to cut & glue wood, pattern colors, but that conversation grew too what woods and where it came from.

The realization between North American Hardwoods, Tropical Hardwoods, Wine industry woods and Urban Hardwoods began to change what wood went with what and why.

Why does Culinary Cutting Boards focus on using Post Industrial salvaged hardwoods for its products?

Having seen the riches in industrial salvage first hand, Gabriel wanted to affordably and responsibly re-purpose hardwoods back in the hands of appreciative people.

Wine industry waste

The inherent quality off the French and North American White Oak used to flavor premium wines is only the start of its industrial purpose. Most trees used to flavor wines are mature and have premium density and structure suitable for master furniture building.

As a master furniture maker, it only takes dusting off the wine crystallization of the wine on one side and planning the oak back into its new desired width to have 200+ year old lumber with a new product purpose.  You can not go to the store and buy such a good grad material easily or affordably.

Culinary Cutting Boards Appetizer boards

This board is designed to be broadly useful and hold a large array off different food servings.

Signature set of Culinary Cutting Boards

The Signature set is a combination of trials over the years to come up with the optimal every meal board combo for your kitchen.  It popularity commands its own stand on the counter top permanently.

Care for the boards

CCB creates its own unique mix or mineral oils & waxes to produce a moist treatment to the wood, with a hardened wax finish.

Wash with soapy water, but do not soak.

Drip dry or dry with a cloth and reapply a mineral oil/wax coat as you feel necessary.

Oil/waxing is needed less as the product is maintained.

As a rule, one coat a day for a week, one coat a week for a month and one coat a month there after.